Cedar Creek, Arizona
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Fort Apache census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85941. It lies near Big Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Creek quadrangle. 372 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,928 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCedar Creek grew from 318 to 372 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 318 | |
| 2020 | 372 | +54 (+17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1954 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Cedar Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1992 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
85 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Creek between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5,659 acres in total. 42 started naturally. 14 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Natural | 42 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | TRASHTRUCK |
| 3 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | HWY 60 TAN |
| 28 September 1994 | Smoking | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | MP 315 |
| 1 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | BIG CANYON |
| 29 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | BIG CANYON |
| 29 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | not named |
| 24 August 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | not named |
| 20 August 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Creek: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Apache | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Middle and East Cedar Creeks | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | Gypsum |
Storms near this place
12 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Creek in 12 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 9 flash flood, 1 wildfire, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Flash Flood | Cedar Creek | - | The stream gauge on White River (WHTA3) near Ft Apache showed a 400 CFS spike. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Cedar Creek | - | A video showed a significant rise of water flowing through the wash. |
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Cedar Creek | - | Cedar Creek had a 5 foot rise below the Cedar Fire scar after a thunderstorm dropped heavy rain over the area. The water was receding by 329 PM. |
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Cedar Creek | - | Heavy rain over the Cedar Fire scar caused flash flooding in Cedar Creek. The gauge at Highway 73 peaked at 6 feet and was receding at 300 PM MST. |
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Cedar Creek | - | Cedar Creek rose 8 feet at the Highway 73 Bridge after a thunderstorm dropped heavy rain over the Cedar Fire scar (June 2016). |
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Cedar Creek | - | Cedar Creek was flowing at a gauge height of 8 feet at the bridge on Highway 73 at 1600. |
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Cedar Creek | - | Heavy rain fell over the Cedar Fire scar and produced flash flooding. The White Mountain Apache Emergency Manager observed 5 feet of water in Cedar Creek with a notable in just 10 minutes. Carrizo Creek had 2.5 feet of water flowing. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Cedar Creek | - | Heavy rain over the Cedar Fire scar caused flash flooding in Cedar Creek. The water over topped the K-rails that were put in place after the fire to prevent flood damage. |
| August 2016 | Heavy Rain | Cedar Creek | - | Radar estimated up to 1.60 inches of rain over the Turkey Track drainage. A 3 to 4 foot rise was observed downstream on Cedar Creek at the Highway 73 bridge in the community of Cedar Creek. Time is an estimate. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Cedar Creek | - | An 8 foot rise in water was reported at the bridge in Cedar Creek. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Cedar Creek | - | A National Forest Service employee reported golf ball sized hail near Cedar Creek along Highway 73. A clogged culvert caused the hail to accumulate to a depth of over six feet in a stream bed under Highway 73. |
| July 2003 | Wildfire | Cedar Creek | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Creek Crossing | 2.5 miles | 12 | |
| Carrizo | 9.1 miles | 12 | |
| Canyon Day | 10.9 miles | 12 | |
| Fort Apache Junction | 11.7 miles | 12 | |
| Black River Crossing | 12.8 miles | 13 | |
| Seneca | 20.4 miles | 18 | |
| Sawmill | 22.5 miles | 12 | |
| Chrysotile | 23.4 miles | 15 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Cedar Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5759915 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2619. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.







